Pocket-protector.



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No. 800,955. PATENTED OCT. 3, 1905. J. STRAUSS. POCKET PROTECTOR.

APTLIUATION FILED FEB. 6. 1905.

wltneowo lUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH STRAUSS, OF BALTI MORE` MARYLAND.

POCKET-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed February 6,1905. Serial No. 244.523.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STRAUSS, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket-protectors.

The object of the invention is to produce a device of this character which may be readily attached to or detached from the pocket-opening and which will completely surround the said opening and protect the fabric of the garment from wear by the insertion of the hand.

The invention is particularly adapted for the use of street-car conductors and other persons who are constantly putting their hands into their pockets to make change or for other purposes.

It is to be understood that the invention is not a supplemental pocket, but a protector to be secured around the pocket-opening.

The invention is illustrated in the accom- `panying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates a front elevation of a garment-pocket opening provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the detached protector.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the garment fabric, and 2 the inner lining thereof. The pocket 3 may be formed in the garment in any suitable manner.

The protector comprises a strip 4 of suitable iieXible material, such as leather. and of a size to entirely cover the pocket-opening. The protector-strip is provided with a longitudinal central slit 5 and a plurality of marginal perforations 6. A flap 7 is secured to the protector-strip adjacent the upper edge 8 of the longitudinal slit and hangs pendently below said slit. A folded reinforce-strip 9 is secured to the protector-strip 4 at the lower edge 10 of the slit 5, and a flap 11 is secured to the inner side of the reinforce-strip 9 and also adjacent the lower edge of the slit 5, and this latter fiap 11 also depends below said slit. The interposition of the reinforce-strip 9 at the upper edge of and between the protectorstrip 4 and the fiap 11 forms a space 12 between said strip and flap for a purpose to be presently described. The fiap 11 along its lower depending edge 13is provided with perforations 14, which register with the marginal perforations 6 at the lower edge of the protector-strip. It will thus be seen that the protector comprises a strip with a central strip and two depending fiaps, one of which is attached to the strip above the slit and the other also attached to the strip below the slit.

ln attaching the protector to the garment the leather strip 4 is placed over the pocketopening and against the outer surface of the fabric 1. The edge 15 of the pocket is then inserted in the space 12 between the flap 11 and the strip 4, as seen in Fig. 2, so that the Hap 11 will hang down inside of the pocket and against the outer wall thereof. The flap 7 attached at the edge 8 of the slit 5, will thus extend across the slit and down into the pocket and lie against the inner side of the pocket. Vhen in this position, metallic fasteners 18 may then be inserted in the marginal perforations 6 and also through the fabric 1 and engage on the inner side of the fabric and between the latter and the lining 2. At the lower edge of the strip metallic fasteners 2O are inserted through the lower marginal perforations, then through the upper edge 15 of the pocket and through the lower iiap 11. Thus it will be seen that the protector is secured around the pocket-opening, and the flaps 7 and 11 will hang inside of the pocket, so that all friction caused by the insertion or withdrawal of the hand will be against the fiaps and the leather protector-strip.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pocket-protector having a strip larger than the pocket-opening and surrounding the latter and provided with a slit which registers with said pocket-opening, said strip also having a Hap secured to each edge of the slit which depends from said slit into the pocket.

2. Apocket-protector having a strip which surrounds the pocket-opening and provided with marginal perforations and also havinga longitudinal slit, a flap secured to said strip adjacent the upper edge of the slit and depending from the slit into the pocket and another iap also secured adjacent the lower edge of and depending from said slit also into the pocket.

3. A pocket-protector having a strip which surrounds the pocket-opening and provided with marginal perforations and also having IOO a longitudinal slit, which registers with the In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature in IO pocket-opening, aap secured to said strip at i presence of Witnesses.

his JOSEPH STRAUSS.

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Witnesses:

G. FERDINAND VoGT, JAMES E. HEWES, FELIX R. SULLIVAN. 

